Writing the world : on globalization / edited by David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothenberg, David, 1962-

Pryor, Wandee J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Collections.

Literature.

Genre:

Collections.

Physical Description:

xvii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]

Summary:

This collection of essays, memoirs, poems, stories, and artwork looks at globalization as a worldwide exchange of art and ideas. Writing the World focuses on the cultural realities of globalism-the opportunities it provides to learn from other cultures. This knowledge, argue David Rothenberg and Wandee Pryor in their introduction, can be power: "When all of us learn enough about our differences to respect the diversity that exists, we will be unable to pretend we are the same. We will never accept the old innocence and ignorance bred by oppression and exploitation." For the contributors to Writing the World, to dream of the global village is to see the world not as a vast market but as a place of shared values and linked wonder.

"It is time to listen to the many literate voices the world speaks," say Rothenberg and Pryor. The voices of Writing the World range from Arundhati Roy on the "colonization of knowledge" in her essay "The Ladies Have Feelings, So...Shall We Leave It to the Experts?" to Naomi Klein's meditation on fences, ownership, and property. They include Bill McKibben on women farmers in Bangladesh, Hannes Westberg's account of being shot by Swedish police at a demonstration, James Barilla on invading and indigenous plant species in "The Aliens in the Garden," and many other vivid, compelling, and provocative writings that celebrate-and illustrate-"the poetry of cultural contact." Artists and photographers whose work appears in the book include Adam Clayman, Jenny Matthews, Richard Robinson, and Arpita Singh.

Contents:

The World as We Found It / David Rothenberg, Wandee J. Pryor xi

Why We Sing (Por que cantamos) / Mario Benedetti, Translated by D'Arcy Martin 2

The Ladies Have Feelings, So...Shall We Leave It to the Experts? / Arundhati Roy 7

Systems / Tim Parks 23

Ghost of a Full-Contact Commute / Mark Rudman 30

We Better Collect the Birds' Nests before the Outsiders Get Here / Paul Spencer Sochaczewski 35

The Aliens in the Garden / James Barilla 50

Furbi / Edie Meidav 59

Civilizations / Inna Mattei 76

The Engagement / Daniel E. Weinbaum 79

Roadblocks and Bridges / Roberta Levitow 92

Monika, Before Reunification / Ingrid Wendt 102

El Halloween and the Dia de Muertos / C. M. Mayo 105

Is This What Democracy Looks Like? / Hannes Westberg 123

Global Reorganization: Conference Proceedings, Santo Domingo, 1991 / Frederick Buell 134

Fetishes and Rarities / Alphonso Lingis 139

Honey, Sugar, and Rose / Lorrinda Khan 150

In the Village / Jan Clausen 160

The Snow in Ghana / Ryszard Kapuscinski 165

Two Women, Two Worlds / Audrey McCollum 170

At Eden's Edge / Ellen Dissanayake 190

Fences of Enclosure, Windows of Possibility / Naomi Klein 195

Waltzing Matilda / Najem Wali, Translated by Marilyn Booth 203

Black Tea / Kathleen L. Housley 218

An Alternative to Progress / Bill McKibben 220

The Globalization of Evil: Words from Baghdad and Belgrade / Nuha al Radi, Jasmina Tesanovic 231

You Tell Us What to Do / Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Translated by Agha Shahid Ali 242.

Notes:

"A Terra nova book."

ISBN:

0262182459

OCLC:

57186241